Saturday, July 13, 2013

Teenage Frankenstein

I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN

Frankenstein: “Speak. I know you have a civil tongue in your head because I sewed it back myself.”

_______________Ygor resurrected me and brought me to the original doctor's son, Ludwig, for help. Ludwig, obsessed with the idea of restoring the monster to full power, was unaware that his various associates all had different ideas about whose brain was to be transplanted into my skull.After Ygor brought me to Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein for care, Ludwig got the idea of replacing my current criminal brain, with a normal brain. But Ygor had plans of his own—he wanted his own criminal brain transplanted into my body. Ygor wanted to feel young and powerful again. He was tired of living in a gimpy, hunchback, crippled body limping all around the joint. He wanted to be young again and know the world with a huge muscular body like mine!!!____________Elsa Frankenstein—(Evelyn Ankers): “Father, who was that strange man I saw leaving the house?”Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein—(Sir Cedric Hardwicke): “Oh. No one of any consequence darling. A patient.”Elsa Frankenstein—“He smiled at me. A cruel smile.It was dreadful.”Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein—“Well you know what my patients are. Don't let it worry you.”[Ludwig sees Elsa's attention—is on the diary of his father. He ushers her out of the room] Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein—“Come along my dear. I must be getting down to the village.”_______________Pity me—I’m just a poor troubled—Teenage minor Frankenstein Monster who enjoys these rare, classical horrorflicks but, apart from them, I’m seldom happy because we’re all MonstersAlong with Ygor for company—in this world with its hoard of abstractions and reflections and counterfeits of itself – I’m just a pimply-faced Teenage Monster An awkward adolescent sleepwalker Just a Teenage Monster stalking the world—A reflection of myself, indistinguishable from A Monster to the outside eye, getting borne Again out of sight in the Mob, resisting it, Trying to get by with life hiding unnoticed Dodging down alleys and sides streets—breathing frantically and losing my bearings, pushing ahead outdistancing my shadow, leading my hateful pursuers thru a graveyarduntil they catch up with me, and destroy meThey all look at one another askance—knowing I’ve got the awful secret we all sharebut can never ever talk about without screaming that we’re all doomed Frankenstein monstersAll of us nothing more than the Walking Dead_________ Chief Constable—(Leyland Hodgson) “The Monster seems to recognize you, my dearHerr Professor Doktor Frankenstein?”Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein—[referring to the Monster] “I never saw this creature... this man before in my life. I know nothing about him.”_______________________I knew that the sign I’d—asked for was just a little thing, apassing nod of recognition, a merephrase coming back to me from my childhood like the veil of a Temple being drawn back for me to seeWhen I was struck by lightning—I didn’t die but rather felt energized!!!Ygor shouted in the storm: “The lightning!!!It is good for you! My Young Frankenstein!!!Your father was Herr Doktor Frankenstein, but your mother was the Lightning!!!”